Sourdough starters! Ancient yeasts! Why we need/knead dough! And why you don't need to buy a starter to start. Polymath, particle physicist, inventor of the Xbox, and truly delightful fermentation nerd Seamus Blackley joins to chat about his kitchen adventures resurrecting dormant yeasts from 4,000 year old Egyptian baking vessels, plus wild yeasts, farting ... Show More
Oct 29
SEWER RATS with Bobby Corrigan
RATS: They love pizza. They invade taquerias at midnight. They scurry. They cuddle. They outsmart. Proving that not just woodsy megafauna can be charismatic, rats have lives we would never suspect. Globally-lauded Urban Rodentologist Dr. Robert Corrigan, or Bobby if you like, has ... Show More
25m 59s
Oct 23
FEAR with Mary Poffenroth
Every day, your brain tries to save your life by being terrified. Thanks, brain! Also, calm the heck down, brain. Alie hunted down Dr. Mary Poffenroth, an expert in the biological and sociological causes/effects of fear and it is riveting. This real life FEAROLOGIST (which is a r ... Show More
30m 33s
Aug 2020
What’s the yeast doing inside my bread?
<p>If you’re one of the millions of people who used lockdown to try something new like baking sourdough bread, you may well be wondering what’s happening chemically inside your loaf, especially if the end result keeps changing. Well, you’re not alone. Listeners Soheil and Sean ar ... Show More
33m 21s
Jun 2018
Mix: The science cooking, pt. 4
Are you ready to mix it up? In this episode, we find out why oil and vinegar are like bickering siblings in the back seat of a car, what delicious food inspired the invention of the blender, and the most effective whisking technique (spoiler alert: it's probably not what you thin ... Show More
30m 3s
Aug 2024
The History of Bread from Prehistoric to Modern Times, by John Ashton, Part 5
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> Let's kick off a month of requests from our Patreon raffle winners with more about the delicious staff of life. This time, bread baking fo ... Show More
1 h
Jun 2023
Pectinidology (SCALLOPS) with Samantha Lynch
<p>They clap. They swim. They have dozens of eyes and 2 million babies. They are scallops. Pectinidologist Dr. Samantha Lynch climbs aboard to share stories of theft on the brackish seas, gossip about scallops vs. oysters, ponderings on Disney bras, months without Rs, bay scallop ... Show More
1h 35m